5 MARCH 1910, Page 27

The Fool of Faery. By M. Urquhart. (Mills and Boon.

6s.)— This again is a story of a Surrey village. Here, however, we encounter no murderers, the narrative being concerned with an ordinary country community, moved by nothing more than "the petty spites of the village spire." The hero is a charming Irish boy who must have been singularly out of place as a clerk in the office of the Local Government Board. The events of the story are of the slightest, but the picture of life in the larger suburbs is well drawn, and the figure of the hero has more than a touch of poetry.